A PICTURE OF POPPY
Poppy created this image using Impressionist/Geometric/Shiny Boiling Bubbles
(27 December 2003)
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A PICTURE OF
ALICE
Alice created this image using Impressionist/Marker/Opaque Crosshatch
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WHERE WE LIVE
We live in Litlington, Cambridgeshire, England.
It's a village surrounded by countryside. It has one shop, called Kumar's, and one pub,
called The Crown. The nearest town is Royston, Hertfordshire. The nearest city is
Cambridge. You can see the Litlington website
- which our Dad keeps. It has a map of the village.
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NEWS
See also School
Poppy's other website is www.gotchagirls.co.uk.
For Alice's "Winter
Sonnet", CLICK HERE.
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PETS
| We have two cats,
Minnie and Ockie. This is Poppy's drawing of Minnie, who is a tortoiseshell. This explains
why she is tan, brown and black. |
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FRIENDS
Alice's best friends are Lucy
Brothwell, Gemma Burdge, Gemma Luckman, Jayne Myall and Hester Potterill
Poppy's best friends
are Isobel Allen, Hazel Farndale, Sophie Potterill, Alice Touhy and Hannah Twiggs
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FAMILY AND
RELATIVES
PARENTS
Our father is Nick Goldman. He works at the EBI (European
Bioinformatics Institution) in Hinxton. Our mother is Cathy Smith, who works at Homerton College,
Cambridge University. Our brother is Evan Goldman. He is six years old. Our Dad
keeps a Goldman family website with lots of
pictures of us and Evan. The most recent are of Alice's twelfth birthday.
Our mother Cathy
in the kitchen in Litlington
COUSINS
Our first cousins who live in Steeple Morden, Hertfordshire - where Poppy and
Evan go to school - are Elise and Joe Butterworth.
Our first cousins who live in Finsbury Park, London
are Oscar Goldman, Katie Goldman and Natalie Goldman (who is two
years old). You can see a
photo of the street where they live.
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[more family and relatives]
Our first cousins once removed who live in
Switzerland are Jocelyn and Sasha Modeste.
Our cousins once removed who live in the United States are Brett Goldman in Texas,
Peter Goldman in Georgia and Scott Goldman in New York City. We've only met Brett, when we
stayed at his house near Houston.
Our First cousin once removed
Peter Goldman's new baby daughter Casey, our second cousin!
UNCLES AND AUNTS
Our uncles are Paul Butterworth, Tom Goldman and Louis Smith. Our aunts are Emily
Butterworth, Jackie Honey and Claudia
Smith.
GRANDPARENTS
Our grandparents are Arnold Goldman, Dorothy
Goldman, Ian Smith and Clare Smith. Our Goldman grandparents live in Cowbeech, East Sussex, England and have Dorothy & Arnold Goldman's Homepage. Our
Smith grandparents live in Guerville, France.
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HOBBIES
Poppy's hobbies are gym, dance and
reading: "I go to gym on Friday night and dance three times on a Saturday. I read in
all my spare time and enjoy real-life stories. CLICK HERE to read Poppy's poem, "(From a dog's point of
view)", which is illustrated below.
Poppy's drawing of "Dog Being Bored
(after Sara Wicks)"
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Alice's hobbies are
texting, downloading music and reading. CLICK HERE to
read Alice's poem "Listen" published in Poetic Voyages North
Hertfordshire (Peterborough, 2001)
Alice's drawing of the Goldman
children (2001)
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SCHOOL
| Alice goes to
Bassingbourn Village College in Cambridgeshire. She is in Year 8. Her tutor is Miss
Ockendon. Poppy
goes to Steeple Morden Primary School.
She is in Year 6. Her teachers are Mrs Talbot and Ms Aspital. Poppy and Evan go to the
SMASH Club: SMASH means Steeple Morden After School and Holidays. |
Poppy and a friend in the SMASH
Club
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JOKES
A man went into a shop.
Shopkeeper: "Can I help you?"
Man: ""Yes. Can I have a mousetrap in a hurry. I have a bus to catch."
Shopkeeper: "Sorry. We don't make mousetraps that big." |
A panda went into a bar-restaurant and asked for
steak and chips. The man was surprised: he didn't know pandas ate steak and chips. He ate
them, got up, pulled out a gun, shot all the bottles behind the bar and then left. The man
went and looked up pandas in the encyclopedia, and it said, "black and white
animal... eats shoots and leaves".
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"Which insect comes out on
Christmas Eve?"
"I don't know. Which?"
"A santapede." |
"Where do blue eggs come from?"
"Sad chickens."
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